My Commonplace
These are some of the latest quotes I’ve been jotting down. If you aren’t familiar with what a Commonplace book is, you can read about it here.
I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.C. S. Lewis
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.C.S. Lewis
He who hath led will lead
All through the wilderness,
He who hath fed will surely feed. …
He who hath heard thy cry
Will never close His ear,
He who hath marked thy faintest sigh
Will not forget thy tear.
He loveth always, faileth never, So rest on Him today_-forever.Catherine (Amy’s mother) Carmichael
All through the wilderness,
He who hath fed will surely feed. …
He who hath heard thy cry
Will never close His ear,
He who hath marked thy faintest sigh
Will not forget thy tear.
He loveth always, faileth never, So rest on Him today_-forever.Catherine (Amy’s mother) Carmichael
For Boethius, as for Cicero, there is a rational order that keeps the world in balance, keeping it from spinning out of control. It ensures that elements of different kinds bond properly to one another; it regulates how the seasons cycle in an ongoing carousel; this order also regulates how the stars and planets turn. He calls this cosmic order “music” because it is a deep, mathematical harmony that frames out the world in understandable patterns. What is more, Boethius (again like Cicero) taught that through instrumental music we can regain a “taste”of the musicality of the world, and thus retune our souls to cosmic music. Music is philosophical therapy, bringing the soul back into tune with the great Conductor’s universe.”Jason M. Baxter
The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis,
The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis,
CAN YE? Mark 10:38.
Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?
And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
CAN GOD? Psalm 78:19.
Ye shall indeed… for with God all things are possible.
Now is my soul troubled and what shall I say?
Father, save me … Father, glorify Thy name.
For this cause came I unto this hour. John 12:24-28.Geraldine Guiness
A note to Amy Carmichael as she waited to head to China
Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?
And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
CAN GOD? Psalm 78:19.
Ye shall indeed… for with God all things are possible.
Now is my soul troubled and what shall I say?
Father, save me … Father, glorify Thy name.
For this cause came I unto this hour. John 12:24-28.Geraldine Guiness
A note to Amy Carmichael as she waited to head to China